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Talk on use of optics by painters set Oct. 14 12:15 p.m., Oct. 10, 2005--David Stork will speak on whether optical devices, such as mirrors and lenses, were used by some early Renaissance painters as aids in their work, at a math and art lecture, from 3:45-4:45 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14, in 104 Gore Hall. Free and open to the public, the talk is sponsored by the departments of Mathematical Sciences and Fine Arts and Visual Communications, as part of the art department’s Margaret Allen Lecture Series. Some researchers, especially English painter David Hockney, have suggested that the Renaissance painters did use optical devices, but Stork maintains they did not and will present evidence to support his point of view. Stork was one of four scientists invited to analyze Hockney’s theory at a major symposium at the New York Institute for the Humanities in December 2001. Stork is chief scientist at the Ricoh California Research Center and was a consulting professor of electrical engineering and visiting lecturer in art history at Stanford University. He is the author of five books, including Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision and Holography for nonscientific readers. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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